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Chicago Magazine's Bryan Smith offers up "Trashed," a compelling look at the case of Michael York. York's body was found in a West Side alley after a weekend of partying that left him dead, apparently from a drug overdose, the body dumped there by York's friends. Smith examines what led up to York's death and what followed.
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This is really such a sad story, but doesn't Michael York have some culpability in his own death?
I mean, any one of the kids who are now behind bars could have been the one to have died and then Michael York would have been one of the vilified ones.
I have all the sympathy in the world for Michael York's mother. It is terrible to have your child become a slave to addiction, and ultimately leave this world before you because of it.
That sympathy does NOT extend to York, his maggoty "friends" or other rich POS junkies who travel to poor areas to get their drugs, yet sneer about "how horrible those people" and "those communities" are once they're home. Stop contributing to the misery of others, assholes.
The 3 mouthbreathers that claimed to be York's "friends" deserve a stiff jail sentence and an old-fashioned curb stomp once they get there. A real friend would have called an ambulance, shot you up with water or milk, or dumped you in a bathtub full of ice to shock your system. What they wouldn't have done is dump you in some anon alley so someone else could get the blame.